# How close in age are you to your nearest sibling?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 8, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115 "2016-11-08T23:52:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/41 "2016-11-09T20:57:23Z")
> [@DinoR](#):
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> A little short of eight years and I’m the youngest of three.
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> Oooops! v:p
I’m the youngest of four and a little less than 7 years younger than my brother. Oops indeed.
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### Author:  [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/42 "2016-11-09T22:12:43Z")
I am ten minutes older than my closest-aged sibling, according to our birth certificates. Unsure of actual difference in birth time.
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/43 "2016-11-09T22:30:55Z")
My only brother is 983 days or 2 years, 8 months, and 10 days older than me.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/44 "2016-11-09T22:34:49Z")
I am 6132 days younger than my brother…that’s 16 years, 9 months, and 15 days. We also have an older (by ~2 years) sister.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/45 "2016-11-09T23:01:58Z")
about 6.66 years.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/46 "2016-11-09T23:27:37Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#):
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> 356 days. We’re Irish twins.
Of the Irish twins in the thread, I now claim the lead. 334 days, or one day shy of eleven months.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/47 "2016-11-10T02:14:31Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> about 6.66 years.
You beast.
Sorry — I couldn’t resist
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### Author:  [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/48 "2016-11-10T02:30:45Z")
Shakes fist at **kaylasdad**!
Missed it by that much!
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/49 "2016-11-10T03:23:46Z")
I’m 13 months and nine days younger than one sister; two years and three months younger than the older sister; and three years and eight months younger than my older brother. That’s four children in just a little more than three and a half years. I’ve also got a brother 5.5 years younger.
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### Author:  [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/50 "2016-11-10T17:14:22Z")
Oldest, 9 years and 25 days older than my younger sister. Bit of a gap there…
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/51 "2016-11-10T17:17:35Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Of the Irish twins in the thread, I now claim the lead. 334 days, or one day shy of eleven months.
You edged me out! My older sister and I were born 336 days apart.
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### Author:  [@Scabs\_the\_Clown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scabs_the_Clown)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/52 "2016-11-10T20:52:51Z")
> [@Tzigone](#):
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> I am ten minutes older than my closest-aged sibling, according to our birth certificates. Unsure of actual difference in birth time.
According to our birth certificates I am 7 minutes younger than my brother. And apparently they didn’t expect twins.
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### Author:  [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/53 "2016-11-10T20:55:03Z")
I was born on his 1st birthday.
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### Author:  [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/54 "2016-11-10T21:01:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> And apparently they didn’t expect twins.
That’s what they told my mom! She told them she was having twins. She said she could feel two backbones down her stomach. One nurse told her she was wrong about how far along she was and a doctor (not her regular doctor) told her she was just too fat.
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/55 "2016-11-10T22:54:36Z")
A few days short of nine and a half years younger than my sister.
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-in-age-are-you-to-your-nearest-sibling/771115/56 "2016-11-11T01:35:55Z")
Wow, I think I win. 5 minutes. My parents found out we were both in there about a week before our birth.
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